Some days you want a blank page. Some days a blank page is the
last thing you need. mindspace has fifteen ways to start, and
every one of them stays on your phone.
iPhone, iOS 26 and up. Free to start, no account needed.
15
exercises
6
guided thoughts
0
accounts, servers, syncs
Edited, not accumulated.
Fifteen exercises is not a feature list — it is what survived.
Each does a job none of the others does, and the ones that
overlapped are gone. Three groups, because there are only three
things anybody opens this app to do: untangle something, see it
differently, or build something that lasts.
The whole app
Four tabs. Nothing buried.
No settings maze, no nested menus. Everything mindspace does is one tap from the bar at the bottom.
Home
Today at a glance, and a blank page already waiting.
Where do I start?
You don't have to know which one you need.
Fifteen exercises is a lot to choose between when you are
already carrying something. Say what's going on in a sentence
and the app picks the ones that fit it, puts them in an order,
and gives you one line on why each is there.
So the choosing is done before you start. No scrolling a list
wondering which of these is the right one today, and no opening
three to find out.
It is a router, not a chatbot. It never offers an opinion, never
gives advice, and only ever points at exercises that exist.
Reads what you wrote and matches it to the exercises that suit it.
Runs on the device. Nothing is sent anywhere.
Waits on your home screen. Tick it off, or ignore it entirely.
A saved plan, sitting above your recent entries.
The Journal
Say it out loud if that's easier.
Record a voice note and it is transcribed on the device, then
dropped into the entry as text you can edit like anything else.
No upload, no queue, no waiting.
Photos and drawings go in the same page. An entry can be three
words or three pages, and nothing counts it.
Transcription happens on your iPhone, offline.
Keep several journals and file entries between them.
Export any entry, or all of them, as a PDF.
One of fifteen
Get it out of your head and onto a branch.
MindTree is for the days when there are nine things and none of
them are in order. Put each one on a branch, group them, drag
them around until the shape makes sense.
Pinch to zoom where your fingers are. New branches take the
colour of the one they grew from, so a group stays a group
without you labelling anything.
One of fifteen
Point at it before you name it.
Pick a feeling, then tap where you notice it. Some days the
words arrive first and some days the tight chest does. This one
is for the second kind of day.
What you tapped is saved as an entry like any other, in your own
shorthand, with no score attached to it.
Six guided thoughts
One question at a time.
Productive Worrying. Mind Slow Down. Easing Anger. Fact or
Opinion. Training Gratitude. Value Framing. Five to eight steps
each, one question per screen, and your place is kept if you
stop halfway. Mind Slow Down and Training Gratitude are free.
Every answer you write is saved as an entry, so a walkthrough
you did in March is still readable in November.
Every walkthrough opens the same way: what it is, how long, then Begin.
One of fifteen
Small things, in a jar.
Write one line, fold it, drop it in. The slips pile up where you
can see them. Tag them if you want to know what the good days
had in common.
There is no target and no streak to break. Three on a Tuesday and
none for a fortnight is a perfectly normal jar.
No mood scores. No sentiment charts.
Insights
Two numbers, until you tap one.
At rest it's how many entries this year, how many words all time,
and which days you wrote on. Tap a figure and it opens: this
month, this year, and roughly how many pages that would be. That
is the whole of it.
Counts, not grades. Nothing here scores a week, reads a mood or
tells you a streak was broken — the calendar marks the days you
wrote and says nothing about the ones you didn't.
Tapping a figure opens it. Roughly four pages, so far this year.
Privacy
There is nothing to leak.
This is not a policy promise about how carefully your writing is
handled somewhere else. There is no somewhere else. Entries are
files on your iPhone.
No account
No email, no password, no sign-in. Open the app and start writing.
No server
Nothing is uploaded, because there is nowhere to upload it to.
On-device AI
Voice transcription and the planner both run on the phone. That includes the AI.
Yours to take
Export anything you've written, any time, as a PDF. Nothing is held back.
The full list
All fifteen.
Six are free forever — four exercises and two guided thoughts. The rest come with a subscription.
Journal Free
MindTree Free
Sentence Completion Free
Wise Mind
Where Do I Feel?
Circles of Control
Thought Unpack
Gratitude Jar
Anchor Trailer Free
Body, People, Self
Golden Circle
Good Enough
Attribute Reframing
Reverse Path
Gratitude Visit
Pricing
Start free. Stay free if it suits you.
Six are free forever — the Journal, MindTree, Sentence Completion, Anchor Trailer, and two of the Guided Thoughts. Not a trial, no expiry.
Monthly
$3.99 / month
Billed monthly. Cancel any time.
All fifteen exercises
All six guided thoughts
Voice notes and summaries
Best value
Yearly
First week free
$39.99 / year
Then $3.33 a month, billed yearly — two months free. Cancel any time.
Everything in Monthly
Two months free against monthly
One charge a year
Pay once
Lifetime
$79.99 one time
A one-time purchase. Nothing renews and there is nothing to cancel.
Everything, permanently
Tied to your Apple Account
Restores on a new iPhone
Prices shown in US dollars. The App Store sets the local price in every other country.
Questions worth asking.
If there's no account, what happens when I get a new phone?
Entries are files on the device, so they move with an iPhone backup the same way your photos and notes do. A paid plan is tied to your Apple Account rather than to the phone — tap Restore Purchases on the new one.
Is my writing used to train anything?
No. It cannot be: nothing you write is sent anywhere. The transcription and the planner both run on your iPhone, which is also why they work with the phone in aeroplane mode.
What do I actually get for free?
Six things. The Journal with voice notes, photos and drawings; MindTree; Sentence Completion; Anchor Trailer; and two of the Guided Thoughts — Mind Slow Down and Training Gratitude. Free forever, with no expiry and no nag screen counting your days.
Does it tell me how I'm doing?
It counts entries, words and the days you wrote on, and that is the whole of it. There is no mood score, no sentiment graph and nothing that grades a week.
Is there an Android version, or a web version?
Not today. iPhone only, iOS 26 and up.
Somewhere to put it down.
Six exercises free forever. No account, no server, nothing to leak.
